General Chiang Kai-shek's broadcast speech made in connection with the anniversary of the Manchurian Incident yesterday and several other news articles and comments were taken out by the Shanghai Municipal Council press censors, forcing two leading Chinese dailies here again to leave big blank spaces in their yesterday's issues.
Half of the front page of the "Chinese American Daily News" was originally meant for the publication of the speech, but the whole speech had been censored. The paper was forced to publish only the picture of General Chiang on the blank front page. Chinese in Shanghai were very much impressed by the blank space, and in a sub-editorial the paper expressed deep regret.
It was revealed in this editorial that any material in connection with the anniversary had been censored. Mr. G. G. Phillips, secretary and Commissioner General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, was said to have notified the Chinese papers of the information that could be published, giving a limit. The notifications were served on July 19. Even information relating to the contribution campaign for raising money for making winter uniforms of Chinese soldiers was forbidden to be published, it was stated.
The papers leader was almost completely censored, while that of the "National Herald" was completely cut out, leaving several columns of blank space.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.